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inlocusmads · 4 months

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I really hope Blades 2 (in case there's no set up for #3) lets us choose our own ending, be it continue adventuring, settle down, etc. let me explain:

(Spoiler alert for Blades Book 1 and 2, Guinevere, Across the Void, Distant Shores, Endless Summer, Bloodbound, Perfect Match and some light spoilers for TC&TF, TPA, RCD, HSS:CA, AME, The Elementalists and Kindred. Phew.)

A lot of the times choices hammers down like this inescapable endings of Weddings as a Final Resolution which suffice to say isn't bad inherently, but is used to conclude in books that don't really call for it (such as the really underwhelming LI confession in TPA, a book largely unfocused on romance; Maggie's wedding conclusion in Kindred and MC's own speculations over whether or not they'll say yes to their LI proposing; the weird Ms Match ending when it was really supposed to be about MC and Jack/Jacqueline looking past their rivalry and be able to work together).

Marriage, wedding and kids work in books that have some kind of long-term set-up and payoff such as in TRR, TFS and to an extent, two-part and three-part books. In books with lesser chapters and not a lot of lore-building (TC&TF and TRR both outweigh Blades in terms of lore that we're aware of), it would be just.. strange, in my opinion to have a mandatory Wedding As A Final Resolution ending as a last-minute hail mary option because other endings the writers could've thought of, weren't feasible.

It is preassumptive of me to speculate about the ending with little to no information given, but I have been pretty sceptical of the way PB writes their endings. Often times, they just throw 16+ chapters of worldbuilding and characterisation out the window and scramble up to conclude it in the most plausible way they can - sitcom-style with all the friends gathered for one last adventure or have weddings, babies and a romantic ending 90% of the time. This is in itself, decent enough for a book about romance, but for books like Blades where the main character isn't a blank slate and has some discerning powers that sets them apart from the other characters, a half-put together happily ever after doesn't seem to do them a service at all.

Books like Distant Shores relies largely on a halphazardly put cliffhanger with MC meeting a figure from the past, while raising the LI's baby (I'm not sure how it is with Charlie's and Oliver's routes, but I do remember vaguely that the F!MC could have a baby with Edward) with this weird set-up for a book 2 that never came and simultaneously leaving readers in speculation as that was the conclusion they had to work with, when MC literally had time-travelling powers from the compass and a better ending could be written off, without having to turn MC as an audience surrogate character overnight.

Even Crimes 2's conclusion had Trystan telling MC they love them, when a lot of time could have been dedicated to exploring and expanding on Trystan's character, instead of them just being this traumatised child and writing up some obvious parallels to MC rather than treat them as a character on their own. Everything seemingly goes back to normal, the bullet from the Chekhov's gun never really hits them and it becomes somewhat of a joke to critique the Thornes as this murderous clan as opposed to a real family with fucked-up issues. It cheapens the whole storyline. It's the last-minute resort to sort of write a conclusion and what better than to rely on the age-old picket-fence cottage scenario, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

In my opinion, only a handful of books had the right ending given to them and by 'right', I mean consistent with the other 90% of the book. Such as Queen B ending with the most normal thing that happened in the university - a graduation. ACoR featured the MC reuniting with her family after all that she's fought for and carve out her own path from then forwards. Even Open Heart, which butchered everything else about its story, gave MC the choice of staying in Edenbrook or moving on - which is honestly the only good thing about the books. Endings that acknowledge the MC's role in things besides being a pair of eyes for the reader to navigate, give them personalities and make it fit with the chapters before it are rather few in number since the advent of single-LI stories wherein a majority of the focus was on MC and LI's relationship than the plot, so it was just this cheap reason that made PB overly rely on Weddings As The Final Resolution trope even when it didn't call for it.

I am.. sceptical to say the least, about the way Blades is set up to end. It is clearly one of the only stories in the recent past that has 6 love interest paths to choose from (Valax and Aerin included) and has provided a lot of well-rounded storytelling enough for us to be invested in the LI's backstories, the skills they brought to the table and the dynamics with MC. However, the MC themselves is slowly morphing into the audience surrogate character from before. Back in Book 1, albeit them only showing flaws and vulnerabilities (thanks to the Kade plot), the MC was a real person, as capable as the LIs and their niche set of skills and their personalities.

By Book 2, the plot which is supposed to focus on MC, ends up accumulating a large mass of characters, giving MC the hero's treatment without actually giving them chances to be humanised, for the lack of a better word.

We only get to see them comfort characters, adopt cute animals and share some sparse moments with them, be indestructible in the face of death and that's it. While MC is the beating heart of the story, take them away in Book 2 and it spares a lot of time for the LIs to not have to chickenfight Valax and hop between realms aimlessly and.. that's it. What happened to MC's sincere motivation to rescue their brother in Book 1? What happened to how they overcame the fish-out-of-the-water situations, all in a fight for family?

Book 2 doesn't really have any callbacks to that. Kade, who was MC's primary motivation to meet Mal, Imtura, Nia, Tyril and Aerin, is sidelined heavily. MC becomes the sort of therapy aunt, when they've been deeply traumatised themselves.

To slap that with a 'romance solves everything!' ending would be an actual slap in the face to MC, who'd gone to hell and back just to come back home. If the answer were really that simple, why didn't MC settle down instead? Why should they continue questing?

Weddings as a resolution can be executed well if the payoffs are done. For eg, in Guinevere, a book largely centered around MC's marriage to Arthur/Artura and her growing feelings for Lancelot, as the myth goes, a wedding cements MC's choice as final. No matter how much Arthur/Artura can fight their best friend (with Merlin in the background being the puppeteer), it is ultimately MC's choice and it feels definitive to end with it.

But Blades doesn't force a romance now, does it? It doesn't force you to choose between 2 things. A grandeur wedding may or may not be in the cards, right? So clearly WAAR as an ending is just a really bad take, right?

Fair, but what about stories that have meh endings if you don't choose a romance option at all?

As in, without the element of romance, there is no definitive conclusion and it's very chaotically written?

Honestly a fraction of books can fall into that category, if they don't tell the players to choose a mandatory love interest.

Perfect Match is one such story with multiple romance routes, wherein you can deny diamond options. The ending follows the saving of the president, stopping Eros from taking over and having this weird 'calm after the storm' ending where Nadia and MC ruminate about being superheroes and eh, it kind of spiralled from a serious commentary on AI and everything to just really campy sci-fi by the end of it. The non-romance route has this welcomed found family set-up but doesn't really do much.

Personally I felt it was just a whiplash from doing Secret Service work to retiring to a domestic life, which the initial set up for the book didn't really call for it. MC's role in things slowly dimmed down to being a pair of eyes for the audience and largely in association with their friends and romantic relationships. Taking a romance route with Hayden, Damien, Sloane, Alana and others offers the Wedding As A Resolution as a solution, wherein the chosen LI confesses to MC and that's -- the ending when there's literally so much potential, so many themes being introduced in the book.

The found family trope also didn't sit well with me, considering it had just been like, two books since we met the characters and a lot of them were sidelined to bring focus to the moneymaking LIs. Even platonic routes went down the drain and there was nothing keeping the friend group together besides their mutual connections, shared trauma-bonding and the only people to have ever known the Truth.

(An example where this isn't compromised is TC&TF's ending where Kenna can stay single and instead of having a wedding in the end, she has a 'victory celebration'. The conclusions don't change or lose their meaning if you play a romantic route; Kenna gets her happy ending as a leader and peace returns to Stormholt.)

However it can't be said for books like The Unexpected Heiress which asks you to pick and suitor and charges you 30 DIAMONDS to MARRY your chosen LI and if you didn't choose it, MC leaves England to go back home, likely and THAT'S the conclusion. (If you did choose the premium option, the scene doesn't differ much, except you get to travel with your LI- I guess, it could be like a honeymoon kind of situation).

The It Lives (books 1 and 2 on the app) series is probably the only fantasy-adjacent series where romance takes a passenger seat and focuses more on MC and their journey. ILB's ending in all its ambiguity still does a decent job of wrapping up the series with no bias towards romance routes compared to books about romance with many choices and paths to take!

Even Across the Void forces MC into a last-minute romance to conclude the book somehow. Red Carpet Diaries shoe-horned in a Wedding As A Resolution plot much like how America's Most Eligible does too. PB doesn't really explore a lot with fantasy and sci-fi in its entirety, rather tackles it with modern times - sort of like a magical realism story, say in the widely talked about supernatural-series Bloodbound (which also forces a romance route + a wedding/moving-into-together ending by Book 3).

This isn't to say it cheapens the ending, rather it says there's no meaningful ending if you don't pick a romance route. The case is prevalent for a lot of multi-LI stories. The single routes kind of.. just end with a celebration of the hurdles overcome and a look into the future - a constant staple for literally every PB book out there. It becomes oversaturated to the point where the narration ends up forcing you to pick a goddamn route, like in HSS: CA even when the situation really doesn't call for it (I don't even remember what happens in the end of the trilogy) and in LoA where you end up having to choose between Aislinn and Gabe and the ending is the romance that follows.

Blades's role:

Now I really hope that isn't the case with Blades. Lots of things are still unknown about MC's history besides some Orc and Elven lore here and there and maybe it is kept that way to make some sort of big reveal at the end. Maybe it's a Bloodbound situation where MC is a descendant and that makes her the Chosen One. Maybe it's an Endless Summer situation with the whole, well, if you know you know. Maybe Raine is in fact the descendant of the Mother of Grey, maybe the Mother of Grey's the balance between the Light & Shadow realms from eating into each other - there are tons of possibilities.

But it shouldn't be at the cost of PB using their old patterns to write up a chalky romance ending. While It Lives and ES are exemplars at treating platonic routes with equal importance as romantic routes - well, as equal as it gets, really and not forcing the audience to make a decision, Perfect Match still exists as one where the ending is just.. "yeah.. so yeah that happened, man that's a fever dream" and with PB's recurrent problem in newer books with wrapping up a storyline and writing an ending (often resorting to a grand wedding even in Surrender, when the LI and MC have barely KNOWN each other! Even in the Princess Swap, one of the MCs gets proposed to, to have this illusion of some ending - I know it is technically a 'single LI' book but they could have waited, jeez)

Still, it makes me a lot more sceptical on how PB would handle the non-romance route, or more importantly how they can discern romance from MC's personal journey and their own powers. It is different from It Lives, Bloodbound and Endless Summer despite them all having some versions of the Chosen One trope. It features a MC who's determined to save their loved ones and figure out things along the way, but is sadly subjected to being a passenger in their own story. It's been 16 chapters in Book 2. By 16 chapters in Book 1, we'd seen MC 'break down' and race against time to save their brother out of desperation. (There's this disconnect I feel with the whole Watcher plotline and the realmwalker thing, but that's a different story).

I for one would be just so disappointed if they worked on 2 (or 3) books just to have MC say, "I found my perfect life with you, you're my home, LI." and call that a fitting ending.

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Honestly these were just a lot of jumbled thoughts and I had to get it out of my system somehow, so no hard feelings! I'm just sort of tired of PB constantly demeaning their platonic routes and kind of putting 0 effort into it in the recent years. They are indeed heading towards a whole different direction w their single li books but still, I've been holding out some hope for Blades and I just hope it isn't squashed.

#mads rants about romance because she has the aro-ace pass/jk #choices book club #blades of light and shadow

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postsfromthedark · 1 year

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TOH S3 E2 theory

Spoilers of released pics and clips under the cut

So when the Gang goes into the Collector's mindscape, there's that big door with all the "KEEP OUT" signs, right?

I have two theories as to what's in there.

Memories of when the Titan og imprisoned them, which would inc. how to do it and so raise the question in the Gang of if they should trap them or not (like they are a kid, it seems)

Memories of where they come from, how they wound up in the BI, which may include another dramamtic betrayal and add to what we know abt the Collector's major trust issues (ideally this might include an actual name drop, but I doubt we're gonna get one so)

Bonus theory I just thought of, it could be when Philip first met the Collector. Smth never rlly sat right with me how that deal was told to have gone down. They make the deal. and it seems that TC told him right then how to get back home, but it takes another 400 or so years to do it? Was Philip waiting for a chance to do the draining spell the whole time? Was he waiting for the perfect grimwalker but eventually quit on that plan? It'd also make sense why TC would lock that off. Painful memory, where you're told nothing but lies and empty promises

I do rlly like that we see their mindscape. We know already that the Collector's been trapped for at least a few millenia (the titan trapped him, and the titan had to have died/hibernated at least a few thousand years ago for there to be such an advanced civilization(s) living on his body). It's debatable whether being trapped halted the Collector's aging, and he rlly was like 8 when it happened, or if the Collector's species just ages reallly slowly and the collector was alive millenia before that as well.

We saw that Philip was able to turn his mind into a hallway commemorating his lies and faux achievements, and I highly suspect the Collector showed him how to do that, and does it themselves.

Whtvr happens tho, I'm so effing happy the Collector's gonna have more than 8 minutes of screen time soon 😭😭

#the owl house #the owl house collector #the owl house season 3 #collector toh #the collector toh #toh #toh collector #the collecter toh #the collector

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paranoidpoltergeist · 2 years

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Transformers: Cyberverse Review (2/2)

So I finally watched cyberverse and figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and do my review while I was at it instead of having to rewatch it later. This ended up being so much longer than I expected and I tried to look back over it to the best of my ability but I wrote these directly after finishing each season so at some very odd hours of the day if anything is worded weirdly sorry about that. Please keep in mind this is my opinion and you might not agree:) Season 3:

Lemme start this off by saying I was so excited to see G1-Esque Laserbeak again but the absolute BUTCHERING of my boy drifts character. I was so sad dude, let him have his redemption arc:( plus Hot Rod, Cheetor, and Shockwave dying?! Not even right. I also lied because episode 5 of this season is the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen. I am so completely lost. How is Hot Rod back? What is even happening? Is that squid thing a Quintessons? Two of which were partially answered. Next episode we find out what happened with Hot Rod and you’ll notice one great detail here that was missing from season 2 THEY EXPLAIN WHAT WAS GOING ON.

So far the pacing feels a lot better even if the random time skip is a bit odd, BUT WIRL IS HERE AND HE’S GREAT. STUNTICONS well Stunticon, Dead End is great, I love his design even though I had no idea it was him at first. I don’t know if Hot Rod's voice actor had a cold or something while they were recording this but he was just constantly whispering and it made it so hard to take him seriously bc he’d be yelling somebodies name and it just sounded so flat. I didn’t think I’d like Perceptor at first but I ended up liking him a lot, Soundwave as always was great. I figure I’ll have a soft spot for this version for a long time, now if they’d just let him have all his cassettes back.

As of episode 12, Skywarp has been name-dropped once, and while I think I know which one she is she hasn’t been introduced yet and I’m on my hands and knees absolutely begging rn PLEASE let us have Skywarp. SPOILER ALERT SHE NEVER SAYS ANYTHING. I am devastated, Skywarp has got to be one of my favorite characters so every time I hear his name mentioned anywhere near a show or movie I get straight giddy bc we see Skywarp less than TC which honestly is a feat so you can imagine how sad I was when after being name-dropped AS THE COMMANDER she doesn’t get a single voice line. Finally, get TC and Warp and have them ripped away. L. In other news, have I mentioned that Starscream’s upgrades are the goofiest yet? Because they are. Judge Starscream has got to be the single worst thing to come out of any piece of transformers media like ever.

When I tell you I gasped when Megatron admitted he mistreated Starscream, never in a million years did I see that coming. I mean part of it is that Screamer got power-hungry, that his ambitions were too large, that he went a little crazy along the way, but part of it was that he was hurt. Does that excuse him deciding his entire world needed to be destroyed? No definitely not. I feel a character study coming along, but this isn’t the time or place so instead, I’LL TELL YOU HOW HYPED I WAS TO SEE ASTROTRAIN AND THE INSECTICONS. Hey, I’ll let you guess which faction is my favorite lol. The rest of this season is straight goofy and it’s mostly filler. Wild Wild Wheel, in particular, is one I want to touch on. It’s surprising how often the media does this but, as hurt as I know I’d be if I was left behind by my team I feel like you’d also have to realize well it’s war and casualties are in abundance. Someone goes missing and you usually have to assume they’re dead. The last episode was a bit weird but it was alright. In the end, this season wasn't bad at all but I do wish they'd cut it off at episode 18 and said the rest was season 4 or something. 7/10

Season 4:

This season was weird and I loved it and hated it. The first episode was great but the second one dude I’m so sad. I wish Astrotrain had more screen time I feel like he could have been a super cool character but alas he’s the 207th Decepticon gone. They killed the entirety of high command I was clinging to Soundwave and they VAPORIZED HIM. The way he went out was so sick but man you could have let us have at least one.

Now to the actual review part. I loved the Dinobots it was a different take on their story and I liked it. Letting them be an actual combiner was cool but Soundblaster destroying literal planets over a beatbox competition is the funniest thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life. The story flowed pretty well honestly, though I almost immediately knew what they were doing when Tarn showed up. The look my mom gave when I screamed “IS THAT TARN?!” was great but I did NOT expect the Megatron bashing they had him do lol. It’s a little hard to compare this season with the others because it's so different but I liked it, it was enjoyable. 6.5/10

How my system works:

When I do these reviews I base them on a couple of things 1.) What made it different 2.) How enjoyable is it 3.) How’s the plot, pacing, character designs, etc? So while I might really like a character there’s still a chance I’ll dock points because they didn’t just create a new character altogether instead of just stealing a name.

What makes it different?

Most of the changes they made were good. I loved 90% of the design changes, I even really liked the way they used the plot and what we already know from the original story. As confusing as our initial time skip is, it's not hard to fill in the blanks with any other continuities time on earth. So we skip the stuff we already know and instead get new stuff, which kept me interested! However, this part could have been really hard to understand for new viewers. Their approach to the Quintessons was a tad weird but it worked so I’m not complaining. 7.5/10

How enjoyable is it?

It was pretty good. I liked it and despite them killing off half the characters I liked I never felt like throwing my phone down and not watching anymore. It kept me interested and for the most part, it wasn't way too easy to guess exactly what was gonna happen. The number of characters they’d name-drop just to never use physically hurt me and sometimes I’d get frustrated with how they used certain characters or how they set something up or their weird time skips but so I’d pause it, get up to grab some water or something and get right back to it. Which for me is pretty good. 6.5/10

How’s the plot?

Despite the plotholes, the plot was good. They made it different but close enough I’d still be able to tell it's Transformers if they took away the name. Sometimes the way they won *cough* cybertroniansunitething *cough* was odd but all in all, it's fine. I thought the parade loop was creative and interesting to watch. The apocalypse part was honestly my favorite but I wish Hot Rod's frustration led to something. You win some you lose some ig. 6.5/10

How was the pacing?

The pacing was ok in most episodes. (I’m looking at you Sea of Tranquility) They managed to bring back the absolute mess I feared season 2 would be so I’m giving them points for that. Again the time skips can be weird but close to every episode BUT SEA OF TRANQUILITY THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE did a pretty good job closing up those gaps for us. 6/10

How were the character designs?

I’ve already partially touched on this but it usually needs its own section so without further ado. Two-thirds of Starscream’s upgrades are the worst, most terrible horrifying things and I hate them with a burning passion. His original design however I liked and his voice actor did a great job. I liked almost everyone's designs until the Allspark got involved EXCEPT FOR JETFIRE whose design was just ok. I’m just kinda sad he wasn’t our gentle giant. That and he was really annoying, sorry anybody who liked him. 8/10

Overall: I think I have more conflicting feelings over this show than I do Micheal Bay's first TMNT movie, except its none of the low expectations or nostalgia and all mild confusion. This show is… weird, it was interesting and enjoyable despite Hasbro's never-ending fear of new characters. They took an old premise and made it new even if I can never forgive them for Judge Starscream, they kept the character designs reminiscent of G1 but still kept them fresh and I really liked it. I wish they used the Titans and Insecticons more or expanded on the multiverse part and it could have been interesting to see some of the other combiners. They might have had plans to use some of that before the show got canceled but we’ll never know.

Overall score: 6/10

#tv show review #tv show reaction #transformers #transformers cyberverse #starscream #skywarp #megatron #soundwave #cheetor #soundblaster #laserbeak #Me and sea of tranquility could fight #i felt like i randomly started watching an entirely different show #i'm still pressed over skywarp #but im hyped for her in earthspark #more ADHD fueled ramblings as a treat

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kendo413 · 1 month

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Life is strange: true colors

None of my friends in real life have played any LIS game, so i will be sharing my thoughts on LIS TC with the Void. If only so it's out of my brain.

I am also someone who has no interest in BTS or LIS 2. I believe everything I need to know about Rachel Amber is in the first game and am not going to play a prequel that just reaffirms that she is complex and mysterious. From what i can tell, everyone's opinions in the first game are all a little bit true and I'm good, thank you. So keep in mind that I've only played the original and can only compare to the original, so I'm probably incorrect.

Also, spoilers if you haven't played it yet. I just played it yesterday because it was on sale. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given it a chance.

Alex gets control of her powers way too quickly.

Hours after arriving in Haven, she has an episode, and then when faced with equally intense emotion, she can deal with it despite herself being in a terrifying position. When Max needed her powers the most, they failed her, and I think there should have been more of a learning curve for Alex. Alex hid away from herself for years, so she is effectively in the same boat as Max. Yeah, she had known her powers for longer, was aware, and tried to manage, but to pull out actively using them so effectively was abrupt.

I apparently beat the game in <10 hours.

Super glad i waited for it to be on sale. I know I missed some collectibles, but dang.

Not a ton of story to play through

I'm replaying now to try and find things i missed, and I know this has a looser timeline than LIS, but I was expecting... more. More plot points, maybe more stakes to deal with. Honestly, the threats to Steph/Ryan could have come sooner so there could be more development there. Maybe Alex pulls back from them for safety. Maybe we find out more about the Big Evil Plot, which I'm still not super clear on what the vote was for. Maybe Alex loses some grip on her control without their stability/support.

Again, it's unfair for me to compare to LIS which was released episode by episode, so they absolutely needed to have distinct and compelling plot points to bring you back. Here, it's split into chapters more like a movie rather than a comic book that you can abandon at any time, if that makes sense.

It was easy to leave Haven

Nobody in that town is shown to give a single f about Alex outside of Bench Girl and text messages. Alex lost her brother, but they all leaned on Alex to fix them or listen to their drama. I get its part of the story, part of who Alex has always tried to be since her mom died. Also, there's helping people with their problems to manage your own problems, and then there is telling the guy who cut the rope you forgive him. Forgiving him was wild to me.

Leaving with Steph was even easier.

Steph is the only one who looked at Alex and said, "Holy shit, you need a doctor," without an ulterior motive. Ryan turned on Alex. Eleanor basically called Alex crazy. Pike and Charlotte were my own fault for not being able to side with Alex, but damn. Even if Steph had been platonic and offered Alex to run away with her, I'd have chosen that.

Also, she is super adorable in her flirting and internal gay panic over being flirted with. And the larp stuff was dope - witch Steph was extra adorable.

Their dad...

...did not need to be in the mine. That felt excessive. I don't remember if there was any notion of Gabe looking for their dad and following the trail to Haven in his effects, hence why I'm starting over to actually read (not skim) over his effects. It felt kind of cheap. What Jed did was awful enough without trying to make the situation more significant in that Haven was nearly the end of her whole family line. If nothing else game decision-wise happened with Eleanor, that would be a good enough reason for her to think Alex is cracked.

Excessive development in texts.

If the events take place over the course of 2 weeks, we get to experience like 3 days, give or take. I would have loved more of the little bullshit scenes that develop relationships instead of having to dice through texts. They don't have to be the intense "i will fix your crippling emotional state" things. Honestly, some of that, like the opportunity to neutralize Charlotte's anger, were overstepping or uninteresting to me.

It would have been great to see where Steph's loyalty had developed beyond being the only one who cared that Alex clearly didn't throw herself down a mineshaft. Maybe play through jam sessions and trade stories beyond Gabe's influence on their lives. Honestly, puzzling out the jukebox song was so much fun, and I wanted more of that.

Charlotte

I don't understand what it is like to lose a lover, especially not like that. Grief does messed up things in the mind, so i can see why she's turning that rage all over the place. I get the hatred towards her kid - ethan was told not to go in the mines, Alex warned them, and they reiterated not to go to the mines. He went to the mines anyway, and Gabe died. Yes, typhon was evil corpo jerkbags and didn't heed a warning, but if he had stayed home, no one would have died. No one would have been the wiser about Jed and typhon.

I am so glad the game didn't make me take her rage away. Anger is one of the stages of grief, and she seems to let go of some of it if you leave her alone. I saw a few reddit threads where folks call her terrible for hating her child, but by her own admission, she also hasn't allowed herself to express her feelings/grief. Bottled rage like that is toxic, and she knows it's awful to have those thoughts, but. Yeah. I feel like I'm getting circular and have been in several spots in here.

This got long, but my ramblings are over. I just needed to get that out of my head. In conclusion: the locals kinda suck(except for Riley), corpo scum is always corpo scum no matter how idyllic the setting, Steph is amazing, and in my game, they run off to Salem together.

If anyone does read this and knows of good fic on ao3 to link for Steph/Alex, I'd love a rec.

#life is strange: true colors #my thougts #nonsensical ramblings

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